In 1868, a Klan member from Lincoln County, Georgia sent a letter to African American elected official Davie Jeems. In this letter, the anonymous Klan member threatened Jeems with both physical and mental harm to “show Jeems his place.” He warned that he had his eye on Jeems every single day and advised him not to make any wrong decisions that would anger the KKK. The Klan member sent this letter...

On December 11, 1958, John F. Kennedy a Democratic Presidential candidate composed a personal letter to Eleanor Roosevelt. He wrote, “I note from the press that on last Sunday afternoon, December 7, on the ABC television program College News Conference, you stated…that Senator Kennedy’s ‘father has been spending oodles of money all over the country and probably paid representatives in every...